By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) – A Nigerian judge will hear a money laundering case against crypto exchange Binance and two of its executives next week, more than a month earlier than planned, after defence lawyers asked for the date change, the prosecutor said on Monday. Binance and the executives – U.S. citizen and head …
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By Sonia Rolley PARIS (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo no longer expects to receive its first delivery of mpox vaccines this week, the head of its response team said on Monday, as Congo battles a new variant of the virus that has spread beyond its borders. The World Health Organization declared mpox a global …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany will donate 100,000 mpox vaccine doses from its military stocks to help contain the outbreak on the African continent in the short term as well as provide help to the affected countries, said a government spokesperson on Monday. The government will provide the World Health Organization with flexible financial resources via …
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(This Aug. 24 story has been refiled to correct the name in reporting credit to Djaffar Al Katanty) By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) – The first 10,000 mpox vaccines are finally due to arrive next week in Africa, where a dangerous new strain of the virus – which has afflicted people there for decades – …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Dozens of migrants took advantage of a thick mist to swim to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco on Sunday and early on Monday, local police said. Spain’s two enclaves on Morocco’s Mediterranean coast, Ceuta and Melilla, share the only land borders of the European Union with Africa. The enclaves …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian President Kais Saied announced on Sunday a broad cabinet reshuffle of 19 ministers that included those for defence, foreign affairs and the economy, ahead of a presidential election on Oct. 6. The presidency said in a statement that Khaled Shili would be the new defence minister and Mohamed Ali Nafti the …
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BAMAKO (Reuters) -At least 21 people, including 11 children, were killed by drone strikes on Sunday on the town of Tinzaouaten in north Mali, near where the army suffered a heavy blow last month, Tuareg rebels said. Mali had already carried out airstrikes on insurgent targets in and around Tinzaouaten shortly after Tuareg and Islamist …
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By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian police said two of its officers were killed and three left unconscious after an attack involving knives and explosives by the Islamic Movement of Nigeria in capital Abuja on Sunday. “The proscribed organisation attacked the police checkpoint unprovoked, wielding machetes, improvised explosive devices and knives,” police spokesperson Josephine …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – American rapper Macklemore said he has cancelled his October show in Dubai in protest over the United Arab Emirates’ support for Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a warring party in the country’s civil war. “The current situation in Sudan is urgent, horrific and it’s going largely unnoticed globally. I’m following the …
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LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Renewed fighting between Democratic Republic of Congo’s army and M23 rebels broke out on Sunday around a densely populated town in eastern North Kivu province, where the rebels are waging an insurgency, the army and M23 said. The M23 captured the town of Kirumba, the economic hub of …
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